Extract text from ChemDraw or index files (CDX)
To convert CDX files to another format, you need Visual FoxPro or other Database software.
To convert other file formats to the "Compound Index File" file type, you need software like Visual FoxPro or a similar tool.
A .CDX file usually functions as a Compound Index File for Microsoft Visual FoxPro databases, or as a ChemDraw Exchange File containing chemical structures from PerkinElmer ChemDraw. Less commonly, .CDX files operate as web archive capture indexes for the Wayback Machine, compressed installers for Flexera InstallShield, or Denuvo DRM license verification files.
Legacy Visual FoxPro formats pose severe accessibility issues today. The software was retired in 2007. The index format is proprietary and lacks official modern support. You cannot read the index data without third-party legacy parsers. Similarly, native .CDX chemical drawing files lock your scientific data behind expensive software subscriptions. Colleagues without a ChemDraw license cannot view or edit these structural models natively.
To eliminate these workflow blocks, convert your files. If you possess a Visual FoxPro database, you need both the .CDX index and the DBF table to migrate the data to CSV or modern SQL formats. For chemical models, convert .CDX files to SVG for scalable web integration, or to PDF and PNG for printing and documentation.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CDX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted CDXML, CDAX, DBF, CDX63, GZ, RCDX, CDDX, PDF, FPT, CDXX, ZIP, KDX and CDR files.
If you want to convert CDX file to PDB, JPG, PDF, MOL, EXE, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML or INI, you can use Visual FoxPro or similar software from the "Database Indexing & Chemical Drawing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to CDX, try Visual FoxPro or another comparable tool in the "Database Indexing & Chemical Drawing" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CDX converter.